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Originally Posted by cd288
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I mean as someone who typically voted Republican the converse is actually the case. The GOP is looking more and more crazy by the day and it’s worrying me a lot. They’re catering to the extreme right when those people will vote for a Republican regardless; it makes no sense as a strategy and is the same things Trumps advisors were telling him when he was running: “you don’t need to cater to the base, they will vote Republican regardless and by catering to them you just seem more and more insane and you drive away the more educated and intelligent Republican and moderate voters”
Literally the whole reason he lost was because he went way too insane. The GOP is driving out it’s own historical voters to cater to extreme right Q Anon conspiracy lunatics.
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I can't think of many mainstream republicans who take qanon seriously. But neither party has a monopoly on baseless, conspiratorial thinking. In any case Dem policies are being widely rejected at the present moment, which is how Youngkin got elected in what should have been a blue state based on projections at the time. He's not some Qanon nut, he basically got elected by just sticking up for parents who were being villified by our actual sitting president as potential "domestic terrorists" just because they raised their voice at a pta meeting. That is batshit insane, and most of the electorate obviously recognized it in that case.
And now of course biden is just lifting the popular ideas from the right and taking credit for them. That "No no no, we never said defund the police, we said fund them more!!" at the state of the union was such a spineless, cynical transparent move. Yeah thanks joe, your party's rhetoric has already gotten lots of people killed, but now that you've realized that position is political suicide you're pretending you never held it!